Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Fluorescence Quenching of Carbazole by Selected Phenols in a Cationic Micellar System of Cetyltrimethyl Ammonium Bromide (CTAB)

  • Research
  • Published:
Journal of Fluorescence Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

A group of selected phenols i.e., picric acid, p-Nitrophenol, m-Nitrophenol, o-Nitrophenol, and phenol interactions were studied with a fluorescent probe carbazole in a micellar system of CTAB. CTAB concentration was optimized for maximum quenching of carbazole for each studied phenol. Interaction was studied in 0.02 and 0.1 mol/dm3 CTAB. All the studied phenols resulted in the quenching of carbazole in both CTAB concentrations though lower CTAB concentration was found optimum for highest quenching of the probe carbazole. Carbazole fluorescence quenching with phenols were explained with the help of Stern–Volmer equation that produced the constants of Stern–Volmer (\({K}_{sv}\)). \({K}_{sv}\) shows the sensitiveness of the method for the studied phenol and were observed in the order picric acid > phenol > m-Nitrophenol > p-Nitrophenol > o-Nitrophenol. Detection threshold (DT) and quantification threshold (QT) were observed in the order 1.76 \(\times\) 10–7 – 6.30 \(\times\) 10–7 mol/dm3 and 5.898 \(\times\) 10–7 – 2.11 \(\times\) 10–6 mol/dm3 respectively. The method is reproducible and is effective for the determination of studied phenols in the samples.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2

Similar content being viewed by others

Data Availability

Data has been included in the manuscript, though if the spectra’s of all the experiments performed was needed will be sent on request.

References

  1. Vargas LV, Sand J, Brandão TAS, Fiedler HD, Quina FH, Nome F (2005) Determination of environmentally important metal ions by fluorescence quenching in anionic micellar solution. Analyst 130:242–246. https://doi.org/10.1039/B409600B

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Silva AF, Fiedler HD, Nome F (2011) Ionic quenching of naphthalene fluorescence in sodium dodecyl sulfate micelles. J Phys Chem A 115:2509–2514. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp109759f

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Sapelli E, Brandão TAS, Fiedler HD, Nome F (2007) Fluorescence of Zn(II) 8-hydroxyquinoline complex in the presence of aqueous micellar media: The special cetyltrimethylammonium bromide effect. J Colloid Interf Sci 314:214–222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2007.05.049

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Idrees M, Bibi R, Khan MN (2018) Phenanthrene fluorescence quenching in aqueous sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and determination of important metal ions. J Fluoresc 28:1251–1254. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-018-2288-2

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Idrees M, Ayaz M, Bibi R, Khan MN (2019) Fluorescence quenching of the probes L-tryptophan and indole by anions in aqueous system. Anal Sci 36:183–185. https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.19P264

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Idrees M, Salam A (2021) Pyrene interaction with selected amines in aqueous sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS). J Fluoresc 31:595–598. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-021-02688-2

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Gujar V, Sangale V (2019) Ottoor D (2019) A selective turn off fluorescence sensor based on propranolol-SDS Assemblies for Fe3+ Detection. J Fluoresc 29:91–100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-018-2313-5

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Gujar VB, Ottoor D (2017) Medium dependent dual turn on/turn off fluorescence sensing for Cu2+ ions using AMI/SDS assemblies. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 173:666–674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2016.10.024

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Bhattacharya S, Gulyani A (2003) First report of Zn2+ sensing exclusively at mesoscopic interfaces. Chem Commun Chem Comm 1158–1159. https://doi.org/10.1039/B301364B

  10. Cao Y, Ding L, Hu W, Peng J, Fang Y (2014) A surfactant-modulated fluorescent sensor with pattern recognition capability: Sensing and discriminating multiple heavy metal ions in aqueous solution. J Mater Chem A 2:18488–18496. https://doi.org/10.1039/C4TA03608E

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Bandyopadhyay P, Saha K (2008) Surfactant-induced fluorescent sensor activity enhancement of tryptophan at various pH. Chem Phys Lett 457:227–231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2008.03.076

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. Ghosh AK, Samanta A, Bandyopadhyay P (2011) Anionic micelle-induced fluorescent sensor activity enhancement of acridine orange: Mechanism and pH effect. Chem Phys Lett 507:162–167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2011.03.053

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Bandyopadhyay P, Ghosh AK (2009) pH-controlled ‘‘off-on-off” switch based on Cu2+ -mediated pyrene fluorescence in a PAA-SDS micelle aggregated supramolecular system. J Phys Chem B 113:13462–13464. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp907337r

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Ghosh AK, Samanta A, Bandyopadhyay P (2011) Cu2+-induced micellar charge selective fluorescence response of acridine orange: Effect of micellar charge, pH, and mechanism. J Phys Chem B 115:11823–11830. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp206644b

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Kojima M, Tsunoi S, Tanaka M (2004) High performance solid-phase analytical derivatization of phenols for gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. J Chromatogra A 1042:1–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2004.05.012

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  16. Patsias J, Papadopoulou-Mourkidou E (2000) Development of an automated on-line solid-phase extraction–high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the analysis of aniline, phenol, caffeine and various selected substituted aniline and phenol compounds in aqueous matrices. J Chromatogra A 904:171–188. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0021-9673(00)00927-4

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  17. Bagheri H, Mohammadi A, Salemi A (2004) On-line trace enrichment of phenolic compounds from water using a pyrrole-based polymer as the solid-phase extraction sorbent coupled with high performance liquid chromatography. Anal Chim Acta 513:445–449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2004.03.020

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  18. Saitoh T, Nakayama Y, Hiraide M (2002) Concentration of chlorophenols in water with sodium dodecylsulfate–γ-alumina admicelles for high-performance liquid chromatographic analysis. J Chromatogra A 972:205–209. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0021-9673(02)01118-4

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

Authors thank HEC, for financial help and research facilities in the department.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, 24420, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

    Muhammad Idrees, Abdul Salam & Munsif Khan

Authors
  1. Muhammad Idrees
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Abdul Salam
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Munsif Khan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Contributions

Munsif Khan prepared the solutions, performed the experiments and treated the data whereas Abddul Salam being a senior student in the lab, helped him in performing the experiments. The corresponding author supervised the work, prepared the manuscript.

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Muhammad Idrees.

Ethics declarations

Ethical Approval

Not applicable.

Consent for Publication

Corresponding author on behalf of all the authors authorize the publishers to publish the data after acceptance.

Consent to Participate

Not Applicable.

Competing Interests

No competing interest.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Idrees, M., Salam, A. & Khan, M. Fluorescence Quenching of Carbazole by Selected Phenols in a Cationic Micellar System of Cetyltrimethyl Ammonium Bromide (CTAB). J Fluoresc 33, 261–265 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-022-03084-0

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-022-03084-0

Keywords

Search

Navigation